STRATFORD -- The $1.1 trillion federal budget adopted last week preserves jobs at Sikorsky Aircraft and continues development of a new rescue helicopter for the Air Force.

Connecticut received $3.3 billion in defense spending in the 2014 budget deal signed by President Barack Obama, enough to keep the 6,566 Sikorsky workers in Stratford on the job and fund Connecticut's other defense contractors.

"It's a home run," said U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., during a news conference Tuesday at Sikorsky designed to highlight the state's slice of the $520 billion 2014 federal defense budget.

"This will preserve the workforce we now have," said U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. "It will keep the workforce here at Sikorsky on the job."

The new budget includes $333 million to continue developing a new Air Force combat search and rescue helicopter, which likely will be built by Sikorsky. The Air Force had planned to refurbish an older helicopter, but was convinced to move forward with an improved, new aircraft.

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Good news for Sikorsky, StratfordAircraft funded by the $1.1 trillion 2014 fiscal year federal budget includes:$333 million for new Air Force Search and Rescue Helicopter$503 million for the Marine Corps CH-53K Heavy Lift Replacement Helicopter Program$779 million for the Navy MH-60R Program$421 million for the Navy MH-60S Program$81.4 million for a Navy MH-60 Modernization Program $81 million for VH-71A Executive Helicopter Development$1.2 billion for Army UH-60 Blackhawk M Model

"We had a difficult battle and had to convince the Air Force and our colleagues. The Air Force was going to refurbish an existing helicopter fleet instead of building a new one. The helicopter more than earns its keep and is vital to our men and women in service," Blumenthal said.

Murphy and Blumenthal, along with U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., said Connecticut's other large defense contractors -- Pratt & Whitney in East Hartford and Electric Boat in Groton -- will also receive funding to maintain the status quo and keep current contracts moving along.

Electric Boat will continue building two submarines a year, including a new Virginia class attack sub now in production. Funding was also approved for continued development of a new joint strike fighter being built in part by Pratt & Whitney, the lawmakers said.

Still, despite the federal dollars pouring into Connecticut, Sikorsky will continue to offer early separation packages to senior union workers in an effort to trim the workforce, company officials said.

Paul Jackson, a Sikorsky spokesman, said the company does not have a target number for job reductions and stressed there are no immediate plans for layoffs or forced workforce reductions.

In recent months, the state's defense industry was threatened with massive cutbacks in spending as mandatory reductions under the sequestration process took hold. All three federal lawmakers said the new budget deal -- the first time in two years Congress passed an actual spending plan -- cut in half spending reductions mandated by sequester.

The state didn't get everything it wanted, however, and all three lawmakers lamented that a request to build more Blackhawk helicopters, a mainstay of Sikorsky's fleet, was rejected. Still, four new Blackhawks were authorized and current production was maintained, they said.

Other aircraft funded by the new federal budget includes $503 million for the Marine Corps CH-53K heavy lift replacement helicopter program, $779 million for the Navy MH-60R program, $421 million for the Navy MH-60S program, $81.4 million for a Navy MH-60 modernization program, $81 million for VH-71A Executive Helicopter Development and $1.2 billion for an Army UH-60 Blackhawk M Model.